{"id":1826,"date":"2016-06-01T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2016-06-01T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T04:07:07","slug":"planning-a-novel-i-basic-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/06\/01\/planning-a-novel-i-basic-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a Novel I: Basic Components"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who have been following this blog for a while may be aware that I’ve been[1] putting together pieces of a novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, we know that the story mostly seems to be being told from the perspective of ‘Rollick’, a mostly retired ‘corp investigator’. The other main character (so far) seems to be a mysterious woman who Rollick knows from previous investigations. They seem to be on the trail of the ‘White Rose’, a mysterious killer or thief who leaves a parsnip carved into the shape of a rose at the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n

It seems that some sort of bracer had been stolen, but the larger issue is likely econo-political, with the possible building of a direct rail link from Japan to the mainland.<\/p>\n

Rollick’s motivations are pretty clear. He wants to get to the bottom of this case. He may suspect (or have been told off-screen) that his ‘corp investigator’ background would come in handy.<\/p>\n

The mysterious woman seems to enjoy puzzles, which makes sense given her career as an investigator of note.<\/p>\n

The ‘White Rose’ is a bit of an enigma. Motivation unknown at this time.<\/p>\n

Genre is kind of futuristic ‘film noir’. Location is Rollick’s office and Japan (so far). ‘Transparent Plas-crete’ and ‘shaped charges’ are an indication of the technology level, but may be restricted to government usage. <\/p>\n

Known power groups seem to be Japan, France, and the ‘Eastern Bloc’. (Rollick was a corp investigator for the Bloc, it is unknown whether that is the ‘Eastern Bloc’, but seems likely.)<\/p>\n

Protagonist seems to be Rollick, Antagonist the ‘White Rose’.<\/p>\n

Of the ‘Everyman\/Anti-hero\/Hero’ scale, Rollick seems to be (in the tradition of hard-boiled film noir) a hero verging on anti-hero. There’s no specific evidence of bravery or selflessness, but his special power is likely investigations[2].<\/p>\n

Next up, I’ll be looking at (also from Ty Templeton<\/a>):<\/p>\n

What is normal?<\/p>\n

What changes?<\/p>\n

What is the result?<\/p>\n

[1]Veeery sloooowly…<\/p>\n

[2]We had the privilege of taking Ty Templeton’s ‘Comic Book Boot Camp: Introduction to Comics’ a few years ago, and Ty talked about the various types of heroes. I believe you can find some of this here: https:\/\/neverendinggaming.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/29\/fanexpo-2013-ty-templeton-how-to-plot-a-story-in-under-an-hour\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who have been following this blog for a while may be aware that I’ve been[1] putting together pieces of a novel. So far, we know that the story mostly seems to be being told from the perspective of ‘Rollick’, a mostly retired ‘corp investigator’. The other main character (so far) seems to be a … Continue reading Planning a Novel I: Basic Components<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}